Painting Ideas for Kids with 50 Tools, Methods & Recipes

There are so many painting ideas for kids! Painting is such a staple for art activities with most kids.

Painting is often the first exposure children have to art. Which isn’t surprising. There’s a million different ways to do it!

Its time to be creative with the kids in a way you’ve never been before!

Even though kids love painting, it can become mundane for the child (not to mention yourself) if all that’s ever used is a paintbrush and paper. And where’s the creativity in that?

Pablo Picasso said it best:

“All children are artists.
The problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up.”

How shall we keep our children as artists as they grow?

A few new ways to paint couldn’t hurt, could it? Grab a new tool to paint with, or a new method of painting, and get creative today!

Here’s 50 creative painting ideas for kids, with tools, methods and recipes to get your mind rolling with ideas! Like I said, there’s a million ways to paint, this is just the tip of the iceberg.

28 Different Ideas for Painting Tools

Introduce new tools to use with paint and your child will jump at the opportunity to get creative! Get creative yourself with what you use. Find something lying around the house and ask yourself, “How could we paint with this?”!

14 Different Homemade Paint Recipes

Making your own paint is super easy. Pretty much add food coloring to anything and you’ve created a painting medium. Try some of these tried and true recipes for painting with your kids and you’ll never be short on paint again!

Told you! Look at all the painting ideas there are for kids! Once you start, you won’t stop!

Do you have any painting ideas for kids that they love?

The ENGAGE eBook of 5 weekly plans of activities is perfect for the preschooler age. Fun ways to get the kids moving, work on fine motor, do arts and craft projects and have fun as a family! Each weekly plan includes a handy supply list and activities broken down to know exactly what to do in a simple sentence or two.

I love all the recipes for different paints. I just have one big hurdle to get over. I don’t like having to clean up the mess. :) I know I just have to get over it and take the plunge. Maybe we’ll be doing some more painting this week!